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REINFORCED CONCRETE TOMB AND MEMORIAL.

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REINFORCED CONCRETE TOMB AND MEMORIAL.

APPLlCAIlON HLED FEB. 7. 1916.

Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed February 7, 1916. Serial No. 76,701.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC S. DAULEY, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Oneonta, in the county of Otsego and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reinforced-Concrete Tombs and Memorials, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the interment of human dead, and the objectthereof is to provide a combined burial and memorial means which will beenduring, sanitary, and give absolute protection to the human dead,which may be provided for before death, and which will be within themeans of people who are financially unable to build a durable mausoleumand memorial above ground.

It is the desire of many people to provide for their place of intermentafter death, but this has heretofore been possible to wealthy personsonly, but by means of my invention relatively poor people will beenabled to gratify their desire to prepare their permanent resting placelong before death, and also be enabled to prepare the resting places forall the members of a family many years before needed, in the fullconfidence that the tomb will be in perfect condition for the receptionof the remains of the individual for whom it is intended, when deathoccurs.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of whichthe accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer tolike parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a view of aset of three tombs constructed in accordance with my invention, onebeing ready for the reception of the remains, another having the burialvault therein, and the third being sealed and provided with the memorialtablet; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3, and showingmeans for preventing the entrance of water into the tomb; Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section taken through the intermediate tomb shown in Fig.1, but with the memorial tablet in place, awaiting the necessity foruse; and Fig. t is a transverse section taken through a set of threetombs, the two of which on the left hand are awaiting the necessity foruse, and the one on the right hand having the human remains therein,thetwo on the right hand being partly broken away to show the structuraldetails of the vaults.

Referring to the drawings, 5 represents an excavation in the ground of asize adapted for one or a plurality of the tombs, three being shown inthe drawings, and indicated by the reference characters (3, 7 and 8,these having their floors and walls formed of reinforced concrete 9 andbeing provided, when constructed, with tablets 10, 11 and 12,respectively, of marble, granite, bronze, or any suitable equivalent,definitely positioned by bronze dowel pins, these not being shown asthey are an old and well known expedient.

When a plurality of tombs are provided in one excavation I provide achannel 13 along the top of the wall or walls therebetween to carry offwater but, if one or more tombs are provided, I surround the top of eachone with-a channel 14 having a drain 15 led downwardly to a mass ofbroken stone 1G to insure a proper drainage ,of the channel 1d, thefunction of the channel let being to intercept water which might oozebetween the tomb and the tablet during the period intervening betweenconstruction and use of the tomb, and thereby insuring absence ofmoisture within the tomb when its use is required.

At 17 is shown a burial vault formed of reinforced concrete, as forinstance the type known as the Norwalk reinforced concrete vault andwithin one of which is shown a burial casket 18 of any type, neither theparticular vault nor the casket forming a part of my invention except inso far as the provision of a receiving tomb is provided therefor longbefore the contemplated necessity of use, and the manner of sealing thecasket and vault within the tomb for all time because of thehon'iogeneous mass formed by the concrete tomb, the concrete vault, andthe concrete filler 19 after the tomb has been sealed, as shown at theright hand of Fig. 4.

After the concrete filler 19 has been placed within the tomb the tabletis placed thereover and the desired memorial matter may then beinscribed thereon or, if partially inscribed previously, may then becompleted,

and a resting place for the human remains results which is permanentand, because of its being beneath the surface of the earth, is proofagainst the action of the elements for all time.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a person may provide a restingplace for one or more people long before any need therefor exists andwhen he may be better able financially to meet the expense thereof thanwhen the need therefor occurs, thereby gratifying his desires in thisrespect, removing all doubts from the minds of the contemplatedoccupants as to the place of burial of each, and reducing the actualburial cost of each when death occurs, while at the same time givingassurance of a permanent tomb at a relatively low cost.

One of the principal features of the invention resides in the provisionof means for preventing the entrance of water into the tomb whileawaiting the death of its con templated occupant, these meansconsisting, in the form shown, of the drainage channels and passages,but I do not desire to limit myself to any specific form thereof as manymodifications over the form shown and described may be conceived andstill be within the spirit of the invention, and the scope of theappended claims.

As shown at 20, each of the ledger stones or tablets 10, 11 and 12 maybe grooved on its undersurface complemental to the drainage channels14-, whereby any water which may trickle through beneath the rim of thetablets will be obstructed in its flow so as to be sure to find its wayinto the channels 14 and not be conveyed intothe interior of the vaultchambers.

Having fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A resting place for human dead comprising a tomb formed of concreteproviding a chamber for the reception of a burial casket or the like,said tomb structure being provided around its upper edge with a drainagechannel, and a memorial tablet fitted and supported upon said upperedge, said tablet being provided along its under surface with a groovecomplemental to said channel whereby water tending to enter the chamberaforesaid will be received and directed into said channel.

2. A resting place for human dead comprising a tomb formed of permanentmaterial providing a chamber for the reception of a burial casket or thelike, said tomb being provided around and in its upper edge with adrainage channel, and a memorial tablet fitted and supported upon saidupper edge and covering said channel, said tablet being provided alongthat portion thereof which cooperates with the upper edge of thetombwith means whereby water tending to enter the chamber aforesaid will bereceived and directed into said channel.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC S. DAULEY.

Witnesses:

GEO. L. BEELER, PHILIP D. ROLLI-IAUS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

